Professional Coaching Essentials

A thought-provoking partnership that helps clients achieve their goals through self-discovery.

Coaches help clients find their own answers; consultants provide expert advice.

Coaching focuses on future goals; therapy addresses past wounds and mental health.

Coaches don't need subject expertise; mentors share their own experience.

International Coaching Federation — the leading global coaching credentialing body.

Foundation, co-creating relationship, communicating effectively, cultivating learning and growth.

A set of principles guiding professional, ethical coaching behavior.

Being fully conscious and engaged with the client, open and flexible.

Fully attending to what the client says and doesn't say, including emotions and context.

Internal, focused, and global — moving from self-focus to deep attention.

Goal, Reality, Options, Way Forward — a structured coaching framework by John Whitmore.

Goal — what does the client want to achieve.